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Publicacions Matemàtiques is a research mathematical journal published by the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1976 (before 1988 named Publicacions de la Secció de Matemàtiques). The journal has a large circulation all over the world. It is indexed by Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math., Science Citation Index, SciSearch®, ISI Alerting Services, COMPUMATH Citation Index®, and it participates in the Euclid Project. Open access is provided to all published papers through the web page.

Publicacions Matemàtiques is a non-profit university journal which gives special attention to the authors during the whole editorial process.

Publicacions Matemàtiques welcomes original research papers and expository surveys in any area in Mathematics, which represent a substantial contribution.

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Abstract

The structure of complex Finsler manifolds is studied when the Finsler metric has the property of the Kobayashi metric on convex domains: (real) geodesies locally extend to complex curves (extremal disks). It is shown that this property of the Finsler metric induces a complex foliation of the cotangent space closely related to geodesies. Each geodesic of the metric is then shown to have a unique extension to a maximal totally geodesic complex curve ∑ which has properties of extremal disks. Under the additional conditions that the metric is complete and the holomorphic sectional curvature is -4, ∑ coincides with an extremal disk and a theorem of Faran is recovered: the Finsler metric coincides with the Kobayashi metric.